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Cabinet - Sources

Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach, 1710
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BSH16: Half of silver penannular bracelet, from the Black Sea hoard
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Astrolabe table clock
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BSH2: Silver octadrachm of the Bisaltai (Thrace), fragment, c. 465 BC.
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Excavated Sarcophagus of Roman Girl, 1485
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BSH17: Silver jug handles, from the Black Sea hoard
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Forte Michelangelo, Civitavecchia, Roma (1508-1535)
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Ukrainian vyshyvanka shirts in Soviet Pamir (Tajikistan)
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Mappa Mundi
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The four humours
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‘Head of Slavonian’
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Water clocks
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Надгробие Шаршемби уулу Абдыкадыра (Кыргызстан)
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Timeline of voyages
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Дом-музей М.В. Фрунзе, Бишкек (Кыргызстан)
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Silver 'quasi-phiale' from the Lydian Treasure
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JH4: Silver tetradrachm of Athens, fragment.
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Fanny's Chickens
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Transcription: "Hens Should Cackle All The Winter."
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Houses and totem poles in Masset
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Alfred Robinson’s painting of Star House Pole reproduced in E. B. Tylor’s article, ‘Note on the Haida Totem-Post...’
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JH5: Silver diobol of Miletos (Ionia).
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Map of the New World, 1544
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The not so ‘dark side’
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